People say crazy things. Have you ever heard a strange comment and wondered how anyone could say such a thing? What were they thinking? Surely, they can’t be serious! Here are two such crazy, outrageous comments I read today. “Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not...

I was sitting on the beach during a family vacation in Belize and was taking in the beauty of the Caribbean as it splashed its way onto the sandy beach. I noticed that there were kids playing along the shore, running to stay ahead of the waves as if chased...

We have all received bad news. And it is certain we will receive more of it in the future. It might be the daily deluge of news reminding us of the growing ungodliness in our culture, the effects of sin in our society and the expanding reach of evil in...

This is a confession. In my unspoken desire to live with one foot in God’s kingdom and one in my own, I can find clever ways to make scripture fit my own perspectives. My eyes can read the clear intention in God’s word and yet my spirit can pursue an...

American Christians need to be washed in the blood of Christ if we are to experience a revival and reformation across our nation. What might that ‘washing’ might look like? This subject makes many Christians squeamish. After all, the mental image of washing something – much less someone in blood seems grotesque....

Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in...

Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world (John 17:24) Thought Before God shouted out across the darkness, “Let there be light”, he anticipated this...

My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you...